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Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot/Vehicle Interactions

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I'm interested in aircraft stability problems at the moment-particularly with regard to Fly-By-Wire aircraft.
From my own experience-the complex interaction of aircraft control systems with the airframe is poorly understood by pilots, and many accident investigators. With hydraulically powered controls, rate limiting is an important factor in stability. The process of designing modern flight control systems with their special situation control rules induces the possibility of unexpected consequences in corners of the flight envelope where these special situations rules are invoked. Anything that unexpectedly creates additional rate limiting has the potential to adversely affect stability with cliff-like suddenness.
It helps to have an understanding of servo loops and control systems before trying to read this book.
A number of PIO incident case histories have been analyzed and described.
The book is readable without having to wrap your mind too heavily around the math.